Bail reduced for Lynn man in gang-rape case

SALEM – A Superior Court judge reduced the bail of a Lynn man who allegedly participated in a gang rape and sodomy of a 19-year-old girl earlier this month in a basement apartment on Henry Avenue.Frami Abreau, 18, of 9 Henry Ave., #1, appeared through a video conference from the jail Thursday morning for a bail review in which his attorney Peter Marano argued before Judge John T. Lu to reduce the $5,000 cash bail set earlier this month in Lynn District Court to a lesser amount.Marano told Lu that the family has come up with $3,000 in cash while emphasizing that the family is “strapped” and can’t raise any more money.Marano maintained that the entire incident was a “consensual” encounter in exchange for narcotics and that the victim “consented” to performing with one or all three men.But Assistant District Attorney A.J. Camelio had a different version of the incident as he insisted that the bail remain the same while acknowledging that in Lynn District Court, where Abreau pleaded innocent, there was a stipulation of dangerousness with bail conditions of release, including a GPS tracking and the $5,000 cash.On the night of March 1, the 19-year-old female victim came to Lynn to visit a girlfriend and they went to a party on Henry Avenue where they drank alcohol, said Camelio.At some point, her girlfriend left and one of the men, Miguel Roa, 21, reportedly drove her friend home in the victim’s car, while she stayed behind.One man then began kissing the victim while two others, including Abreau, ripped her clothes off and held her down while she was violently raped and sodomized.The woman reported the crime and when police went to the apartment to arrest the men, they reportedly found bottles of alcohol along with condom wrappers, the prosecutor said.Camelio said that the victim did go the hospital where a rape kit was gathered for evidence.Lu went along with reducing the bail to $4,000 cash with the GPS tracking device. It is not known if Abreau will make the bail, but he can not be released until the monitoring device is in place. In the meantime he remains held at the Essex County Jail in Middleton.He is due back in Lynn District Court on April 12.Also arrested and charged in connection with the case was Luis Torres, 17, of Lynn and Miguel Roa, 21, of Peabody.